Robert Frost's "Directive"" and Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death"" are both poems that deal with the past in relation to the present of the speaker. ... When Frost's speaker tells the traveler that a broken drinking goblet, which he compares to the Holy Grail, was something that he had stolen "from a children's playhouse"(59), the implication is that religion cannot be trusted. ... The speaker of Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death"" also looks upon her individual past in a manner that instills a sense of nostalgia in the reader b...

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